Breelove Counselling offers professional development opportunities through various training programs, created in house, by our Breelove Team of experienced clinicians and research|program consultants. Our trainings include:
Trauma Awareness Training
This training is a brief overview of Trauma Informed Care for those who play a leadership, navigation, or educational role. We will be looking at the foundations of trauma, vicarious trauma and self-care while also integrating self-care breaks throughout these topics and closing with time for any questions and discussion.
This training does not offer trauma informed practices or trauma specific services.
Topics Include:
A PDF guidebook will be included for each participant, this includes reflective questions, reminders, and further insight to sustaining a trauma aware culture.
This is a 2.5hr Training and has a capacity of 29 with one (1) facilitator.
This training does not offer trauma informed practices or trauma specific services.
Topics Include:
- Understanding our Stories
- Understanding Trauma
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Race and Privilege
- Vicarious Trauma
- Self-Care
A PDF guidebook will be included for each participant, this includes reflective questions, reminders, and further insight to sustaining a trauma aware culture.
This is a 2.5hr Training and has a capacity of 29 with one (1) facilitator.
Trauma Informed Care Training
This is an extended version of our Trauma Awareness Training, which includes a more in depth review of the existing topics, which includes:
This extended version is for participants who may be a service provider within a community center setting, including schools, shelters, and campuses.
This is a 4hr training and has a capacity of 28 with two (2) facilitators.
- Understanding our Stories
- Understanding Trauma
- Trauma-Informed Care
- Race and Privilege
- Vicarious Trauma
- Self-Care
This extended version is for participants who may be a service provider within a community center setting, including schools, shelters, and campuses.
This is a 4hr training and has a capacity of 28 with two (2) facilitators.
Trauma-Informed Care and Practices
This training introduces practitioners participating in the “train the trainer” style learning for both onboarding of new individuals and guiding existing individuals.
Topics Include:
This is a 15 hr training, this training takes place in a 2-day format (7.5hr/day) and can be delivered online, in person or hybrid [online and in person],this is supported by three facilitators and has a capacity of 8.
Topics Include:
- Basics of Trauma: Attachment, Risk, Resilience, and Types of Trauma
- Trauma Related Disorder DSM 5 and Using a Racially and Decolonized Lens to Trauma Related Symptoms.
- Complex Trauma and the Impact of Trauma on the Whole Person
- Philosophy of Trauma Informed Care and Practice
- Trauma Informed Practice during COVID-19 response
- Introduction to Trauma Screening and Trauma Specific Services
- Vicarious Trauma, Secondary Trauma Stress, Countertransference, Racial Biases, PTSD, Post Traumatic Growth and Compassion Fatigue Resilience
- An understanding of Adverse Childhood Experiences and it’s prevalence to chronic illness and disorders
- The impact of colonization related to historical trauma, intergenerational transmission of trauma and a recent framework related to residential school syndrome in a specific setting
- The impact of enslavement related to historical trauma, intergenerational transmission of racial trauma and a recent assessment framework related to racial traumatic syndrome in a specific setting
- Trauma-informed care (TIC) practices
- Philosophy of Trauma-Specific Services
- Trauma-Specific Services in Practice
- Risks associated with TIC: Vicarious Trauma (VT) and Secondary Trauma Stress (STS)
- Interventions and Prevention of VT and STS
- A model of Post-traumatic Growth
- A model of Compassion Fatigue Resilience.
This is a 15 hr training, this training takes place in a 2-day format (7.5hr/day) and can be delivered online, in person or hybrid [online and in person],this is supported by three facilitators and has a capacity of 8.
Trauma Informed Training certification
This training offers guided training in Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) practices for individuals looking to train others in Trauma Informed Care and Practice.
Completing the Trauma Informed Care and Practice training is a prerequisite for this certification. A personal narrative reflection, demonstrating that the practitioner has internalized the subject matter will also be required.
Successful completion of this certification will enable the individual to deliver the training to others, this includes:
Please note: Taking part in the certification process contributes to the four Rs of trauma-informed care as developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, these are:
It is encouraged that the organization integrates trauma-informed care within all areas of functioning (policies, procedures and practices), in order to maintain the efficiency of the certification. Certification requires renewal every five (5) years.
Completing the Trauma Informed Care and Practice training is a prerequisite for this certification. A personal narrative reflection, demonstrating that the practitioner has internalized the subject matter will also be required.
Successful completion of this certification will enable the individual to deliver the training to others, this includes:
- Trauma-Informed Framework
- Understanding Trauma
- Trauma Specific Care
- Responding to Trauma
- Trauma Informed Lens
- Taking care of Me
- Powerpoint presentation with facilitator transcript and videos,
- Certificate of completion, and;
- A reproducible PDF guidebook, this includes reflective questions, reminders, and further insight to sustaining a trauma aware culture.
Please note: Taking part in the certification process contributes to the four Rs of trauma-informed care as developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, these are:
- Realizing the widespread impact of trauma and understanding how trauma can affect families, groups, organizations, and communities as well as individuals
- Recognizing the signs and symptoms of trauma in the health care system
- Responding by fully integrating knowledge about a trauma-informed approach to all areas of functioning (policies, procedures and practices)
- Actively seeking to Resist re-traumatisation of clients as well as staff.
It is encouraged that the organization integrates trauma-informed care within all areas of functioning (policies, procedures and practices), in order to maintain the efficiency of the certification. Certification requires renewal every five (5) years.
TRAUMA Informed care in early childhood
The majority of brain development occurs before a child turns three years old. Early experiences have a profound effect on brain architecture and traumatic experiences may disrupt this development.
Early childhood professionals play a very important role as caring adults in the lives of the young children in their care. Understanding trauma and its effects on young children, and knowing how to create a trauma sensitive environment for them, is what we're about.
Early childhood professionals play a very important role as caring adults in the lives of the young children in their care. Understanding trauma and its effects on young children, and knowing how to create a trauma sensitive environment for them, is what we're about.
Trauma Sensitive Schools
This training is a brief overview of Trauma Informed Care for those who play a leadership, navigation, or educational role. We look at the foundations of trauma, it's implication within an education system, trauma informed care in schools, vicarious trauma and self-care while also integrating self-care breaks throughout these topics.
This training does not offer trauma specific services.
Topics Include:
This training does not offer trauma specific services.
Topics Include:
- Understanding our Stories
- Understanding Trauma
- Trauma-Informed Care in Schools
- Race and Privilege
- Vicarious Trauma
- Self-Care
Racial informed clinical practices
This training is to help clinicians and other healthcare professionals to integrate a racially informed lens to their existing practices. Looking at racial trauma, while also taking into consideration the lens of the historical, intergenerational, and also, what’s happening in the present.
For some, you may be representing yourself as a racialized person, or perhaps you want to learn more how to support your communities or the role you play as a healthcare practitioner/professional.
This training will create a space for you to begin your own reflection and healing of what racial trauma and racial informed practices mean for you, while learning how to respond to people of different cultures and ethnicities.
Learning outcomes:
This is a day's training and has a capacity of 30 with three (3) facilitators.
For some, you may be representing yourself as a racialized person, or perhaps you want to learn more how to support your communities or the role you play as a healthcare practitioner/professional.
This training will create a space for you to begin your own reflection and healing of what racial trauma and racial informed practices mean for you, while learning how to respond to people of different cultures and ethnicities.
Learning outcomes:
- Racially Informed Therapeutic Model
- Understanding how racial-based adversities connect to greater historical racial trauma narratives
- Apply the core principles of racially informed narrative care
- Define and understand trauma and how it impacts our bodies, identities and community
- Describe collective trauma and its effects to cultural norms, creating biases and prejudice within communities.
- Utilizing racial informed model to establish rapport with clients, families, and communities who are racialized.
- Assess areas of growth in identity work, recognize personal prejudice and biases, identify privilege and its impact on your clinical practice
This is a day's training and has a capacity of 30 with three (3) facilitators.
Trauma Specific Training
We offer customized training based on the need and level of clinical practice | standard of practice.
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